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Feb 10th, 2016
Granted, they’ve got a Clifford-sized dog in the hunt, but a new study explains why public employees prefer defined benefit plans over defined contribution...
UC Berkeley has been overspending by millions of dollars a year since 2013, a precarious course that prompted Chancellor Nicholas Dirks to announce Wednesday the possibility of...
The chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, said Wednesday that the university had a “substantial and growing” deficit that could threaten its long-term...
Much has been made during the primary election about Hillary Clinton’s speaking fees from major Wall Street firms. But her husband, Bill, is also about to be in the spotlight...
Feb 8th, 2016
A UC labor union is calling for a speaker’s boycott at UC Berkeley for the duration of the spring semester, urging the campus to improve its treatment of subcontracted...
Feb 5th, 2016
A labor union is calling on Bill and Chelsea Clinton to cancel their appearance at an upcoming conference at the University of California Berkeley unless the school takes measures...
Feb 4th, 2016
Berkeley: The University of California’s largest employee union—AFSCME Local 3299 today called for a “Speaker’s Boycott” at UC Berkeley for the duration of the spring...
Jan 14th, 2016
Public-sector labor unions—whether focused on education or not—have much to lose, depending on how the Supreme Court decides on Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association,...
Dec 10th, 2015
Twenty-two student protesters were arrested on December 3 after staging a two-hour occupation of the central administration offices at the University of California,...
